Those lil monsters are so cute CLM! I love the fabric on the black one, and a pocket zipper mouth is adorable! The bird wall hanging is great too, did you turn the edges under on the applique or is it raw edge?

The monsters are just so creative! You have some imagination! I love the pink one, actually...

and the birdcage applique is wonderful...I have done quite a few appliques but I never turn under the edges...I found that if I use heat bond, it seems to fuse the edges shut..I also use a weird stitch all around...it looks like a funny big blanket stitch...

I'm trying to figure out how to make roses out of velvet similar to these. I really like the look of them. I found a couple of tutorials last night that were close, but hubby closed the window and for some reason I can't find it in history. I think he may have navigated away from the window I had open to look at something he wanted to delete when he was done looking at it so our kids would not find it in history. Men... It is nowhere to be found, and I can't even find or remember the search string I used. Everything else I looked at yesterday is still in history. I wish I had bookmarked the site.

Here is where I first saw them. I bought the magazine partly because I hoped I'd learn how to do them, but there is no tutorial in there. I think they would be cute to put on fall craft projects. I have velvet scraps in my craft room doing nothing. I found out long ago that I hate to sew with velvet. But I'd love to make flowers like these from it.

I think they are super-cute, and a great way to de-stash difficult or temperamental fabric scraps. Have you seen a tutorial for flattened roses like these that are sewn together? I think this is a fold and tuck and sew method, not the gluing and rolling method of construction. How would you make these?